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MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, FI/Division D

SUBJECT: ZRGRACE - Tokyo Aspect;
George PERIS aka George PERISTEROPOULCE aka
George PARIS, Identifind Contact of Valentin HAHN
aka Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN aka Won-shin HAN,
Self Confessed Soviet Agent

1, Fellowing information was made available to the writer by

eer... ee TATION ~~ 2 CAVED AF ce fcve fanan the Sammoten Maa file an

V lontin HAHN, ‘he information herein reported was provided by oral brief- . !

ing only, and the writer was not permitted to review the HAHN file itself.
. Following details are tserefore based entirely on notes taken during the

mecting which tock piace in CARRICO's office on 6 September. i

2. Valentin HAHN, who was born as Valentine Vasiliyevich KHAN on ;
22 April 1908, Slavyanka,. Russia, and who is a Russian of Korean origin,
admitted ia the course of a Polygraph examination administered on an ‘ ‘
unspecified date, that be bad acted a6 aa agent ia Sehalf of ths Soviets. MANN

bas beoa in the employ of CIA since approximately 1952, originally in Seoul, :
H Korea, later in Tokyo, Japan, subsequently being transferred to Okinawa. | i
; He was terminated on unspecified date ae a contract agent of the SR Division, i
; and currently is or has been-resetiicd in Hokkaido, where he has been given &

i job as a translator with the FBIS listening post at Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan.
During the debriefing which accompanied his Polygraph testing, HAHN advised :
that during his service in Tokyo, Japan, his closest associates had been the ;
following individuals in the order listed:
, a. Arseny YANKOVSKY and wife. i
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b, [Basil EFREMOFF)- CLA Staff Employee of[Tokyo Station,] who

a been terminated on unknown date. Hae was identified as a

Japancce Intelligence agent,

e. John Mc COY and wife - Mc cor was or still is an employee of a
SR Division, stationed in Japan.

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d. Vadim MEDIS) CLA Contract Agent in employ of 5R Division
stationed infT <3) ln process of being terminated after
stationed inf as former NKVD agent, a former Abwehr agent,

and subsequent agent activity in behalf ef the Soviets while in
DP camps.

e. Kasua KANAZAWA - Cousin of Valentin HAHN; atone time wae
proposed for operational use by this Agency.

{. Charlotte BERGHOLTZ - Close friend of Ansstasiya SNOW neo
YANKOVSKILY.

g- Golli-Grigorevna and Margucrita PODSTAVINA - PODSTAVINA
is the Godmother of Arseniy YANKOVSKIY,

b. wets Anstels Clg SIT - CLA Suatd empioyee of SR Division
fn [fol BoE Pepartinent of State] cover. Former FBI
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i. George PARIS (Spelling as picked up oviginaily by Office of
Security in written report of Polygragh examination report, and
~ therefore likely phonetic.) - Greek businessman in Tokyo.

3. In the course of further debriefing in connection with his Polygraph
Test, HAHN clsimed that George FERIS or PARIS was the individual who had
introduced HAHN to a club in Tokyo lecatei off the Ginza, the name of which

- clud transtiated into English is “Tomorrow is Too Late". At this club HAHN
- meta Japancse hostess by the name ef Noriko AWAJI, whose real name was

later established to be Noriko MATSOZAKAYVA, whom he subsequeniiy dated.
There is no further information curreatly available on thie hostess. In the
interim, HAHN has obtained a divorce from his wife, who had been a witting
participant in his agent activities for the Soviets, and is known currently to be
living in a common-law relationship with a Japanese zirl who may be identical
with Noriko MATSUZAKAYA. Aa indicated above, HAHN and his current
mistress are currently in Sapporo, Hoxkaido,

4. The ex-wife of Valentin HAHN, whose fail name is not known to the
writer, and the two HAHN sons, are currently being sponsored for resettle-
ment by the Agency in the United States, where all three are scheduled to
receive their U.S. citzenship under CIA sponsorsbip.

5. With reference to the "Tomorrow is/Too Late” Club, HAHN stated
that a number of CIA Staff Employees of the (Tokyo Statiox frequent or have
frequented this establishment and have dated the Japanese hostesses employed

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there. Date of HAHN's introduction to the Club and to Noriko MATSUZAKAYA
by George PARIS aka George PERIS was ectimated by Mr. Sayle to have been
somewhere between 1954 and 1957. With regard to Valentin HAHN's own
inclinations toward sharing his knowledge of romance with others, Mr. Sayle
advised that Security Office had established that while employed as a contract
agent of the [Tokyo Station] HAHN had pimped for CLA Staff personnel in Tokyo.
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6. As attachment herewith, the writer appends additional background
data on the professional intelligence activities and contacts of Valentin HAHN
and family as noted during the oral briefing by Sayle.

7. On baste of the above, it can be safely assured that the George
PARIS known to HAHN is identical with George PERISTERGPOULOS aka
George PERIS, well-known Tokyo businessman and Honorary Deputy Consal
of the Royal Greek Consulate in Yorohama, Japan, as reported in SCTCGKY-63
and SCTOKY-64. it is noteworthy that PERIS' contacts throughout ais career.
commencing ¥‘{n f19 origina: reported employment in Tientsin, China, through
hie activities and contacts in Shanghai, Cuina, and later in Tokyo, not exciud-
ing his marriage to Aurelia CZZRWINSKA, have been exclucively with
individuals of Russian or Eastern European background, many of them of
Ruselan Jewish background, who are eitber highly suspect or have been iden-
tified as long-time agents of Soviet inteliigence. PERIS' reported route of
arrival in Tokyo via Harbin, Tientsin and Shanghai, as well ae his employ-
ment by Sondovich Srothars and.contacts with individuals who te in with the
Boris SOLOMONIK complex and Borsol Fur Trading Corporation, smacke
very strangly of the old Comintern Apparat of the 20's and 30's. Also it
parallets the travel patterns of a number of individuals involved in the SOBLE
case, principally the SOBLZS themselves who were exfiitrated irom the
Soviet Union via Toxyo, Japan, to the U.S.A. and who, most notably of all,
ales were under cover of operating a Bristie Susiness as is Sondovicss Brothers.

8. According to earlier reporting in the ZRGRACE investigation,

_ George PERIS is alleged to have been a contact of William Hamilton MARTIN

in Tokyo, and to have offered MARTIN some type of job or business partner-
ship deal in connection with the rug business.

9. Myr. Carrico informatly indicated that he personally suspects that
MARTIN's introduction to the fine art of masochistic tortare by an unidenti-
fied Japanese female, as reported by Mro. Ardeiie GASDA to FSI agents,
may have been effected at or through his patronage of the ‘Tomorrow is Too
Late” Club to which he may well have beon taken or introduced by bis friend
PERIS, This possibility, however. is subject to further investigation.

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10. As initial follow-up to[SCTOKY]-63 and[SCTOKY}64, outgoing cable
of 7 Sept. 60 requesting further check-out of the Club, etc. was prepared.
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A second cable to be sent by Privacy Lank to Seoul, Korea, has also been
drafted, and requests check of PERIS' arrival, activities and contacts,
departure from Korea subsequent to 28 January 1960. This cable has been
presented separately for your approval and may likely be exdject to revision,
wierefore no copy is attached. It ie further suggested that Cifice of Security
be authorized to pass to NSA Security Officiale working on this case the
information on PERIS relayed in above SCT KYbables, such information te
be properly sterilized of course, and that NSA in turn be recueeted to check
and obtain from U.S, Navy Personnel Records full copies in duplicate of the
oxginal reports on the specific duty stations or assignments, including dates
of service at each, to which MARTIN and MITCHELL were cetaiied, also
detailed leave records, travel records, and other pertinent background data
contained in euch files, to cover the entire period of their respective service
with the U.S. Navy. It is also suggested that NSA officials be requested to
obtain similar detailed original reports in duplicate from the Denartment of. y
ths Aomy lo weve. cus poriga of MAR LIN's civilian employment in Japan,
with special emphasis on any reports of MARTIN's extra-curricular activities,
contacts, club memberahbips, identified personal contacts with persons sot
employed in his own office, leave travel, etc., which may be reflected in
official records. One copy of all such reports are requested for thie Agency,
to permit further checking of known or newly identified contacts he may have
had in Japan. .

ANITA POTOCKI

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